Mr. Smarty Pants
A dollop of creme de la trivia atop your weekly data eclair.
By Mr. Smarty Pants, Fri., May 25, 2001
Beatles researcher Martin Lewis has discovered that honey is featured in 14 Fab Four songs, tea is the most-mentioned drink, and that veggie George Harrison makes the most meat references, with lyrics mentioning pepperoni, pigs, chops, bacon, and chicken.
The leaves of the masoesa bush, a member of the ginger family, are great for cleaning wounds caused by vampire bats.
The Ku Klux Klan won the right to join the Missouri's Adopt-A-Highway cleanup program last November and was assigned a a portion of Interstate 55 near downtown St. Louis. As a result, Gov. Mel Carnahan signed a bill naming the stretch The Rosa Parks Highway.
The rocketship made its first appearance in a 1657 novel by Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac.
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